DR. THACKER’S DIET.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 4 October 1924, Page 12

DR. THACKER’S DIET.

••OXjuY ONE MEAL A DAY NECESSARY,” WHY PEOPLE GET CANCER. Replying to a question as to how many meals a day were necessary for a hfoffu tv lo to k€e P m good health, Dr. I hacker stated in the ■course of a health talk that tie had come to the conclusion that he needed on y one meal a. day. He liad cut out breakfast that day lie had green vegetables and fruit for lunch, but had a reasonable meal that evening. It consisted of scrambled eggs on toast and a , b:ed 1 -apples. When he got home after the lecture he would have a Mass or warm milk.

Dr Thacker’s subject was “Why We Lev Cancer; The Wages of Sin is Death.” Dr. Thacker sa“d the campaign against cancer was already bearing good fruit. Two people had called in that day and -stated how much better hey felt, and he knew that many were doing what they had been advised *to do. The late General Booth when he travelled always had a person witli him to supervise and prepare his toed and that food, was a-lwavs of the kind that suited him. , I* r - Thacker said he wanted the people of Christchurch to come along very quietly and slowly and find out a? , r^ asort * or disease. No matter w iiat the disease was there was some reason for it. The main cause of disease was enervation. He dealt zvith 1 i j Ca i US6s ene rvation and how it could be avoided. Speaking cf the campaign tor food -reform, he said he had-thought out several ways by which they could reach the people. There were the churches, which could conduct an campaign, then the Bov scouts and Girl Guides could help, and as a doctor, he liad always intended that every year every man, woman, and child should be examined and told deliberately their state of health. He believed the British Medical Association should take the matter m hand and say to the Minister of Health, that a law should passed making it absolutely compulsory for every - person to be examined once a year. He was in dead earnest in saying that, because if a watch or anything else went wrong it was likely to be overhauled, and the same should be done with human beings. Fear, worry rage and other emotional things ate up nerve energy and caused enervation. Persons not engaged in heavy muscular work were advised by Dr. Thacker C °i. eat v€ t r y sparingly. One man who had been attending the lectures had «not eaten meat for a month. At first the other people at his home stared at ms lettuces, wholemeal bread and milk, but they zvere nearly all eat-ino-Aie same food nozv. ‘ 0 A lady asked Dr. Thacker if a person with an zilcerated stomach zvas likely to contract cancer. He u plied chat an ulcor in the stomach was nearly 100 per cent, of cancer if the person dia not die of hemorrhage or malnutrition in the meantime. Dr. Thacker stated in reply to another question that it zvas not' right to drink zvith' meals. He told his patients not to take anything with meals that could be poured from one basin to another in liquid or semi-liquid form. People should drink one hour before a meal or one hour after. If they had afternoon tea they should take the tea by itself and have nothing to„-eat zvith it.. It was all right to drink during the night.—Christchurch Press.